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Ralph Waldo Emerson

American essayist and leader of the transcendentalists

1803–1882 Philosophy
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About Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston, studied at Harvard and became a Unitarian minister before leaving the pulpit in 1832. Settling in Concord, Massachusetts, he wrote and lectured on self reliance, nature and the individual. His book Nature appeared in 1836, and his essay Circles was published in Essays: First Series in 1841. Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman both counted him as a teacher and friend.
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Circles

Narrated by Cory Stoutner

Emerson’s classic meditation on ever-widening thought and self-renewal, performed by Cory Stoutner. Circles urges us to outgrow limits, draw new orbits of possibility, an...

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Nature

Narrated by Richard Stibbard

Emerson’s visionary manifesto on nature, spirit, and self-reliance comes alive in Richard Stibbard’s clear, unabridged performance—an inspiring companion for walks, commu...

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